{"id":1155,"date":"2012-08-01T21:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2012-08-01T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:45:52","slug":"christopher-hogan-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hogan in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Incredible India<\/h1>\n<h6>The slogan for Tourism India got it right when they endorsed these words.<\/h6>\n<h6>I am in India, Pune to be exact, been here for nearly a month now, and loving every minute. \u00a0The colours of India are forming the basis of my new series of artworks and I am happily working away surrounded by the sounds and sights that are influencing the composition of this body of work. \u00a0I read recently that &#8216;India comprises the bulk of the Indian subcontinent and lies atop the minor\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Indian Plate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Plate\">Indian tectonic plate<\/a>, which in turn belongs to the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Indo-Australian Plate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indo-Australian_Plate\">Indo-Australian Plate<\/a>&#8216; and this could be the reason that Indians and Australians get on so well together, we are truly neighbours, not just cricket binds us together but also the force of nature. \u00a0I have been to India before but this time I am living here for an extended period, so every opportunity I am off discovering more of this great land.<\/h6>\n<div id=\"attachment_1157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7180.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1157\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1157\" title=\"Private Jet off touring with a collector of my work.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7180-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Hogan India\"width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7180-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7180-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Invitation to join one of my collectors on a tour of Southern India<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04612.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1159\" title=\"On board private jet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04612-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Hogan India\"width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04612-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04612-1024x574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">On board the private jet<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1161\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7261.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1161\" title=\"Ju Ming sculpture in Bangalore, India\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7261-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Hogan India\"width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7261-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7261-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">My favourite sculptor is Ju MIng and I was very nicely surprised to see a fine example of his work in Bangalore, India.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1162\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 178px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04635.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1162\" title=\"Enjoying the journey that is India \" src=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04635-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Hogan India\"width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04635-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC04635-574x1024.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Enjoying the journey that is India.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible India The slogan for Tourism India got it right when they endorsed these words. I am in India, Pune to be exact, been here for nearly a month now, and loving every minute. \u00a0The colours of India are forming the basis of my new series of artworks and I am happily working away surrounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,92],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","tag-india","tag-private-jet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christopherhogan.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}